Senate passes internet sales tax bill amid opposition from conservatives

Obama, You didn't earn thatFrom the UK Guardian:

Bill to overturn 1992 court decision has support of Obama, Amazon and Walmart – but its future in the House is uncertain

The US Senate on Monday passed a bill aimed at ending tax-free shopping on the internet but the move looks set to face fierce opposition before it becomes law.

The Marketplace Fairness Act, which has cross-party supporter and the backing of powerful retailers, would give states the power to require retailers with sales over $1m to collect state and local sales taxes for online purchases.

The bill has the support of president Barack Obama the majority of senators including Republican John McCain but Marco Rubio, seen a potential Republican presidential hopeful, and Rand Paul both voted against the bill.

The bill passed the Senate by 70 votes to 24 but faces a second test in the House of Representatives where internet retailers and conservatives are already lobbying against the tax. House leaders have yet to schedule hearings or votes on their version of the measure.

The legislation would overturn a 1992 supreme court ruling that said a state could not force a retailer to collect sales tax unless the retailer had a physical presence in the state.

Can you imagine being a retailer, following an actual passage of this bill, and having to comply with the separate tax codes of every state and every region?

Because, after all, if you’re a business owner, you simply didn’t build it.  Everyone but you built your business.

The following Republicans voted yea on the internet tax: Sessions & Shelby (AL), McCain (AZ), Chambliss & Isakson (GA), Crapo & Risch (ID), Coats (IN), Grassley (IA), Collins (ME), Cochran & Wicker (MS), Blunt (MO), Fischer & Johanns (NE), Hoeven (ND), Portman (OH), Thune (SD), Alexander & Corker (TN), Enzi (WY).

The following Republicans voted nay: Flake (AZ), Rubio (FL), Kirk (IL), Roberts (KS), McConnell & Paul (KY), Vitter (LA), Heller (NV), Ayotte (NH), Coburn & Inhofe (OK), Toomey (PA), Cruz (TX), Hatch & Lee (UT), Johnson (WI), and Barrasso (WY).

Remember them.

BZ

P.S.
An excellent article, “Why Barack Obama hates small business” is here.

 

 

CSI Syria:

If there were a better chain of custody.  .  .

From JTA.org:

Obama: ‘Chain of custody’ needed for Syria action

WASHINGTON (JTA) — President Obama said he needs to have all the facts on who used chemical weapons in Syria before taking further action.

“What we now have is evidence that chemical weapons have been used inside of Syria, but we don’t know how they were used, when they were used, who used them,” Obama said Tuesday at a news conference. “We don’t have a chain of custody that establishes what exactly happened. And when I am making decisions about America’s national security and the potential for taking additional action in response to chemical weapon use, I’ve got to make sure I’ve got the facts.”

“We don’t have a chain of custody that establishes what exactly happened.”

CSI Syria.

Obaka drew a red line.  Then he pulled that red line and kicked it up a few hundred thousand feet.

BZ

P.S.
Charles Krauthammer responds.

 

 

Michelle Malkin de-bones Juan Williams over Obama’s lies

Yes, perhaps a bit of schadenfreude, but I certainly enjoy watching Leftists hoisted on the petard of their own purposeful choosing, and I further enjoy watching falsehoods and outright lies exposed to the faces of Leftists.  To wit:

Clearly, Michelle Malkin is more than capable of removing the skeletal structure of Juan Williams.  Williams, like an addled goof, smiles throughout it all.  He offers no logical retorts or responses except religion.  Williams offers only religion.

How so, you ask?  Because Juan Williams and Leftists of his kind expect you to proffer only faith.  They expect you to exude faith and simply believe.  How strange that the Secular Left expect you to believe — hallelujah! — in Anthropomorphic Global Warming and — can I get another hallelujah! — in our Leftist Savior, Barack Hussein Obaka!  Praise Obaka, peace be upon him!

And Williams, of course, is far from the worst of the Leftists in the media.

I just thought there needed to be some sense displayed today.

BZ

 

 

Senate rejects background checks on gun purchases in 54-46 vote

And Mr Obama throws a hissy-fit in the rose garden.

From TheHill.com:

The Senate delivered a devastating blow to President Obama’s agenda to regulate guns Wednesday by defeating a bipartisan proposal to expand background checks.

It failed by a vote of 54 to 46, with five Democrats voting against it. Only four Republicans supported it.

Democratic Sens. Mark Pryor (Ark.), Max Baucus (Mont.), Heidi Heitkamp (N.D.), Mark Begich (Alaska) and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (Nev.) voted against it. Reid supported the measure but voted against it to preserve his ability to bring the measure up again.

GOP Sens. John McCain (Ariz.), Susan Collins (Maine), Pat Toomey (Pa.) and Mark Kirk (Ill.) voted “yes.”

Imagine.  The bill was so bad that five Demorat senators actually voted against it.  But fear not, because John McCain (D) voted for the bill.

What appeared to be a likely victory for the president was resoundingly defeated by the Senate as jittery Democrats facing tough reelections next year joined nearly the entire Republican conference.

From Politico.com:

Defeated and angry — and surrounded by Newtown families, former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and Vice President Joe Biden — Obama vowed to continue the gun control fight as he castigated senators who sank the bipartisan background checks proposal. He walked to the podium with his arm around Giffords, critically wounded in the 2011 mass shooting outside a Tucson supermarket, and hugged relatives of victims of the December Newtown shooting who attended the event.

See the video above.  It was, in a word, demagoguery.

And for roughly the fifth time, let me be perfectly clear with regard to my stance on gun control laws: I will not now, not ever, sacrifice my Second Amendment rights for children.  Not for one child; not for a hundred.  I won’t sacrifice them for me, I won’t sacrifice them for you.

Let’s be frank.  Gun violence deaths predominantly occur in melanin-enhanced communities whose male youths have no regard for themselves or others, or human life in general.  These shootings occur in communities where the populations are shoved into econo-box living circumstances, in urban environments.  These areas are overarchingly Demorat/Leftist controlled politically.  There isn’t a Republican or a Conservative within miles.

The bulk of America, via Gallup, isn’t worried about gun violence (4%).  It’s mostly worried about the economy and about jobs.  It is DC that is making the current Talking Points about guns, because they are taking advantage of the Useful Idiots who would so readily toss away their freedoms for a modicum — and a very poor one at that — of security.

The Obaka Administration operates only via crisis.  It’s this crisis or it’s that crisis.  There is no planning, only Management By Crisis.  And those events portrayed as crises are mostly not.  The “gun issue” is not a crisis.  It is a diversion and it is a naked attempt to reduce the freedoms of citizens and an attempt to corral power and control in DC.

The bombing in Boston?  That is not a crisis.  More people were killed in the two neighboring counties, in one day, in vehicle accidents than at the Boston Marathon.

Yet, because of the Pussification of America, weak-kneed Americans are more than willing to swallow the pill of defeat and demand more cameras, more checks, more abrogations of our Civil Rights, in order to feel “secure.”  FEEL.  The operative word.  Emotions, once again.  But, in truth, what HAS the TSA and Homeland Security done to make us more secure?  Oh yes, except to spend more billions of dollars and to reduce individual freedoms.

Your freedoms are at stake here, ladies and gentlemen.

Today, we “won” one.

But please note who voted to give away your rights.

BZ